This is a great opportunity to join the fastest growing university in the Southeast and just eight miles from the Myrtle Beach coast. If you’re a dynamic, creative, and innovative professional, consider joining our team to support student success.

Assessment and Community Engagement Librarian--Assistant/Associate Rank

This is a great opportunity to join the fastest growing university in the Southeast and just eight miles from the Myrtle Beach coast. If you’re a dynamic, creative, and innovative professional, consider joining our team to support student success.

Assessment and Community Engagement Librarian--Assistant/Associate Rank

Kimbel Library at Coastal Carolina University is seeking a creative, innovative, and student-centered librarian to coordinate assessment activities and to develop programming to engage the university and local community. Reporting to the Head of Access Services, this is a twelve-month, faculty position at either the assistant or associate level depending on qualifications. The person in this position will coordinate the library's assessment efforts and will play a key role in demonstrating the value of the library, based on sound assessment practices. S/he will coordinate the library's outreach activities and will develop and coordinate internal and external communications in support of the library's services and resources. S/he will chair the library's marketing and outreach committee and will co-chair the library's social media committee.

The Assessment and Outreach Librarian coordinates all aspects of library assessment working with various departments to ensure accurate assessment of all library resources and services; develops and/or administers various assessment instruments to include LibQual and other surveys, focus groups or measures of library resources and services; gathers and analyzes data for reporting in the university's assessment system, Teal Online, and in support of the library's strategic plan; chairs the library's marketing and outreach committee and co-chairs the library's social media committee; coordinates the library's outreach activities to include orientation, National Library Week, Banned Books Week and other activities that promote the library; seeks grant-funded opportunities for library outreach; coordinates the development of library promotional materials and library exhibits and displays; serves as primary contact with university communications to ensure that all marketing materials comply with university guidelines; manages social media content; supervises student workers; serves as a member of the Access Services team to assist in providing for the informational and technological needs of students, faculty, staff, and community members; may include assisting at circulation desk and/or providing reference assistance; assists the dean with coordinating events for Friends of the Library; exemplifies service excellence in all aspects of work and in interactions with students, faculty and staff; represents the library in local, state, and regional partnerships and consortiums in areas of responsibility; maintains current awareness of trends in the areas of responsibility and makes recommendations for improvement; serves on library and university committees and other venues for service; and, contributes to the profession and improvement of library services through scholarly and applied research.

Candidates should submit electronically a letter of application, a current CV, copies of transcripts, and names, phone numbers, and addresses (postal and email), of three current references to: https://jobs.coastal.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Official transcripts for required degrees must be received prior to any offer of employment.

At ALA Midwinter 2015 in Chicago, about 30 brave souls ignored blizzard warnings on Sunday afternoon and stayed at McCormick Place to participate in the MAES Hot Topics in Assessment discussion on "Using Ethnographic Research in Library Assessment." To initiate discussion, we heard about four completed or in-process studies from:

At ALA Midwinter 2015 in Chicago, about 30 brave souls ignored blizzard warnings on Sunday afternoon and stayed at McCormick Place to participate in the MAES Hot Topics in Assessment discussion on "Using Ethnographic Research in Library Assessment." To initiate discussion, we heard about four completed or in-process studies from:

Terry Taylor, DePaul University

Kirsten Kinsley, Florida State University

Terri Fishel, Macalester College

Neely J. Tang, Cornell University

Attached is a summary of the presentations, a handout from one of the speakers, and a handout about a multi-institution life mapping project.

http://cuny.edu/libraries/conference.html
This site is for "Reinventing Libraries:Reinventing Assessment". The conference is June 6, 2014, and the deadline for conference submissions is March 1, 2014. I received the announcement of this conference---many of you probably did, as well---but thought I would pass it along. Might be of particular interest to those in the Northeast.
It should be fairly warm in NYC by then.

Lisa Hinchliffe, Professor/Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Donna Tolson, Library Strategist, University of Virginia Library

Date/Time: Sunday, January 26, 2014, 4:30 to 5:30

Location: Philadelphia Convention Center Room 102 A

Facilitators:

Lisa Hinchliffe, Professor/Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Donna Tolson, Library Strategist, University of Virginia Library

Lisa Hinchliffe will provide an overview of culture of assessment and organizational practices that are associated with such a culture. Following these opening remarks, discussion group attendees will participate in table discussions of barriers to developing a culture of assessment, reporting out their findings to the group. Then, Donna Tolson will discuss how the University of Virginia developed a culture of assessment at their library, current issues they are facing, and new priorities such as how to assess strategic directions. Her presentation will lead into table discussions about prioritizing assessment efforts. The discussion will conclude with a general Q & A.

The Southeastern Library Assessment Conference provides an opportunity for those interested in advancing the library assessment and user experience conversation to gather together to share and discuss practical ideas and information.

Call for Proposals

The Southeastern Library Assessment Conference invites proposals for the October 21-22, 2013, conference to be held in Atlanta, Georgia.

Program proposals should be designed to fit within a 45-minute timeframe, which includes time for questions. We encourage thoughtful, timely proposals on any topic related to assessment in libraries of all types, including, but not limited to:

Collaborations

Collections

Creating assessment plans

Data-driven decision making

Demonstrating value

Developing a culture of assessment

Ethnographic studies

Getting started with assessment

Impact on student learning, retention, progression, and/or graduation

Learning outcomes

Library instruction

Methods

Reporting results to stakeholders

Services

Spaces and facilities

Special collections and archives

Usability

User experience

Proposals should include:

Program title

Name, institution, position title, and email address of each presenter

Abstract of 200 words or fewer. The abstract should state clearly the relevance of the topic to library assessment and practical implications for libraries.

Brief 2-3 sentence abstract suitable for the conference website and program

It was great to reconnect with so many MAES members at the Library Assessment Conference, which wrapped up today in Charlottesville, VA. MAES was extremely well-represented in the presentation schedule as well as in the poster session. Presenters included:

It was great to reconnect with so many MAES members at the Library Assessment Conference, which wrapped up today in Charlottesville, VA. MAES was extremely well-represented in the presentation schedule as well as in the poster session. Presenters included:

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Exercises overall responsibility for all matters pertaining to needs for and uses of measurement of library resources, services, and facilities, regardless of type of library or functional activity; works with other organizations, agencies, and associations in planning and advising in areas of library measurement, evaluation, and assessment; recommends and/or prepares guidelines, standards, and tools to be used in measurement, evaluation, and assessment activities; and, recommends inclusions, defi nitions, procedures, and policies concerning library quantitative and qualitative assessment.